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What I liked: The constantly hearing everyone's thoughts thing was cool, and they used it well both to move the story and to make jokes. Space western is an underused genre, always good to have a new addition. Tom Holland, as always makes a pretty delightful dorky teenager. Also the orange overalls, way to subvert my expectations of space fashion.

What I didn't: Cool title, but I don't understand what it means. What was even the point of the aliens? What happened to the aliens? Surely, in a massive planet colonization there is some form of judicial system that transcends settlements. It seems like that would have been a very good thing to make use of. It also seems like moving would have been a good idea, given that there were in fact many other available places to move. I refuse to believe that no one noticed a spaceship crashing. That would be really bright and really loud. Someone must have seen something. A third alternative I could suggest is that he could go with her, just so we don't get thinking that there really are only two options. The preacher's subplot got confusing there at the end, it really should have been better developed than it was. The main bad guy clearly 1) was evil, no need to belabor that point with random death of pets, cuz really we're in drop in the ocean territory, and 2) has a terrible plan. Not just an evil plan, but poorly thought through. Both the original plan, it's easier to have people to rule if they aren't dead, and the secondary plan, again with hard to rule dead people problem, have major drawbacks. 

Who should watch this? People who like Tom Holland, people who have already watched the other  movies on the airplane. 

Would I watch it again? Once was plenty

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